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WELCOME
TO MOUTH

We're a bi-monthly
magazine,
usually only in print, but here's
an online sample. We're now the
only disability rights-oriented magazine put to printed page,
and that is our focus. The Ragged
Edge, the other one,
recently went to web only, and is the place to go for the latest news
and articles
if you
prefer the free
and complete coverage via accessible web. If you are
looking for something in particular from classic Mouth issues (2-3 years
before now)
the Google site search feature works well. Full text
of all
Mouths,
for
a
price,
is available
from www.slinfo.com. Qualified potential
volunteers to aid in building and maintaining a comprehensive, assessible,
up-to-date website may apply to me (Cal) at cal@mouthmag.com.

Take the
disk to Copymax like we do (or Kinko's) to get the posters made,
as many as you like
-- each one is 11 x
17 inches -- for less than $2 each. Lamination costs about as much per poster.
(We recommend it so you can tack or tape your posters up anywhere and move ’em
when the mood strikes you.)

Or make your own Expect the Respect poster and email
us a pdf file of it. We'd love to see this idea keep spinning any whichaway.
Feel free to use any of the
art elements we used, or start from scratch. Bend it, shape it, color it, make
it sing.

Whatever you do, get the word out: Expect the Respect!

A note from the editor: I miss Ed Roberts.
Since he passed, there's nobody I can call late at night to get a party
of a conversation. The Ed Zone, Billy Golfus called it. That zone was a
reliable, portable upper. Ed was a seriously truthful guy, and laughing
all the way.

For the articles which follow, I took huge editorial liberties: ransacking
a number of sources, shown below, picking them apart to weave a conversation.

Although he may never have said it all in one day, every word and every
sentence is Ed's; none is taken out of context.

Ed knew I'd never misquote him anyhow. After the first article where
he was my subject, he didn't bother to fact-check the ones that
followed.

Many of us wish he were here. I hope this conversation brings him
close enough so that some new friends hear his voice. -

Sources: interviews with Ed for Mouth and New Mobility by Lucy Gwin;
Timothy Pfaff's profile for California Monthly; interviews by Susan O'Hara
for the Bancroft Library; Jon Oda's transcript of an Ed speech; and finally,
most importantly, a video of Ed's talk to the very first Partners in
Policymaking weekend. Get in the Ed Zone on the web site of the Minnesota
Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities. www.mncdd.org/parallels2/one/video/ed_roberts-pipm.html